# Purpose of apt\_rpm module?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/purpose-of-apt-rpm-module/20136>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [January 7, 2016, 7:40am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/purpose-of-apt-rpm-module/20136 "2016-01-07T07:40:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![don](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed655f/32.png) [@don](https://forum.ansible.com/u/don)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 7:40am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/purpose-of-apt-rpm-module/20136/1 "2016-01-07T07:40:33Z")

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Hello,

Can someone enlighten me on the purpose of apt\_rpm module?  
It requires BOTH apt and rpm, what distro it’s for?

-don

ps. Also, I know (centos based) distros with just rpm, which is not  
supported as there is no rpm module, only yum. This is strange overall.

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/purpose-of-apt-rpm-module/20136/2 "2016-01-07T14:53:20Z")

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its for using apt-rpm which is a utility that adds a 'apt like  
wrapper' around rpm, this is targeted at rpm based distros.

[http://apt-rpm.org/about.shtml](http://apt-rpm.org/about.shtml)